The Pomona Police Department joined forces with the Los Angeles Regional Human Trafficking Task Force, a multi-agency team that concentrates on victims of the sex trade and pimps, for a large-scale operation in the area of Holt Avenue and Reservoir Street, according to a police statement.

Twenty-four people were arrested for a variety of offenses, including 15 males for soliciting undercover deputies for various sex acts. Two of the men who were arrested for soliciting sex from an undercover decoy arrived in a car which had been reported stolen, officials said.

Nine female sex workers were detained and offered victim services from the Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking and other service providers.

Wednesday’s action is part of Pomona police’s effort to address “open air” solicitation of prostitutes along the Holt Avenue corridor, officials said.